Comedian Shifrin answered the writer Izmailov, who accused him of ingratitude to Koklyushkin 
attitude to the satirist Nikolai Koklyushkin. Shifrin answered Izmailov on the air of the program “You Won't Believe It!” on the NTV channel.
It is noted that the conflict between the two colleagues occurred at the funeral of Koklyushkin on November 14. Then Izmailov spoke sharply about Shifrin. According to him, the deceased made Shifrin a star of the spoken genre, and he did not even thank him for the written monologues. He added that recently the pop comedian avoided communication with Koklyushkin. Izmailov's statement offended Shifrin.
“This person will not get to heaven even with a QR code,” said 65-year-old Shifrin, stating that he had never quarreled with Koklyushkin. At the same time, he admitted that he rarely spoke with the deceased satirist.
Earlier, humorist and singer Vladimir Vinokur commented on the death of satirist writer Koklyushkin, who died at the age of 75 from acute heart failure. “This is a big loss for our genre and for the stage in general,” he said.